Here’s what Mathew Robson, a a 15-year-old in the UK, wrote in a report for Morgan Stanley that has high-paid researchers, media execs and financial analysts wondering what they do for a living: Radio: With online sites streaming music for free they do not bother, as services such as last.fm do this advert free and users […]
Respectively submitted for your persusal: GM tanks. A plane falls out of the sky. The American president reaches out to the Muslim world. Newspapers slip-slide away. Every blogger has a better idea. Ashton Kutcher says he’s eclipsed CNN as media. Surreal? Apocalyptic? Prescient? After forty days and forty nights of downpours, biblical storms, and consequential […]
We Media members, readers, fans and friends are invited to breakfast and a conversation with Fast Company magazine founder Alan Webber and best-selling author Dan Pink. When: 8 am – 10 am Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Where: The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Blvd. McLean, VA USA To register: Click here. The Washington Board of […]
New search engine Wolfram|Alpha launched this week with the Star Trekkian goal to “make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.” Just what the world needs most. Here’s an example from its visual gallery of examples. Really cleared things up for me. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com
When Andrew and I framed the concept of We Media back in 2002, we adopted a phrase that was intentionally ambiguous. Our intent was to inform and to be informed by a societal movement around media that respected and impacted everyone. It didn’t matter if you worked in offices, owned presses and managed big businesses […]
A few weeks back Amazon got blasted by gay rights groups when it was discovered that gay and lesbian book titles were delisted from its site. Amazon claimed an internal glitch caused the problem and declined to offer additional details. A spokesperson was quoted saying “This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a […]